Labor
Healthcare's Swiss solution
IPN Opinion article
Switzerland and the Netherlands could be a source of inspiration for America's healthcare reforms.
Lessons from Abroad for Health Reform in the USA
An event in Washington, DC, featuring speakers from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Canada and Switzerland
Don't throttle trade
IPN Opinion article
Trade barriers are springing up all over the world as protectionism rears its ugly head, led by the Buy American provisions of President Obama's stimulus package. This is doing real and increasing harm not just to trading partners but Americans themselves: free trade is the best way out of the global recession so we all need to fight for its survival.
The Health Care Math Everyone Avoids
IPN Opinion article
Whatever the merits of President Obama's healthcare plan, someone will have to pay for it - but there will be fewer and fewer taxpayers and more and more healthcare-dependants as time goes by. It is a calculation that everyone wants to avoid.
Curb the Population Myth
IPN Opinion article
President Obama has ended the ban on federal funds imposed by the Bush Administration on groups that promote or perform abortions abroad and on the United Nations Population Fund. He must take this opportunity to put pressure on the UNFPA to concentrate on the health of women and babies ó and to stop wasting money assaulting the poor with wrongheaded population-control schemes.
Drowning a single illness in cash will do more harm than good
IPN Opinion article
Donors are beginning to realise that spending disproportionate sums on AIDS is undermining overall primary healthcare.
What population apocalypse is affecting us now?
IPN Opinion article
World Population Day: The problem is not population, but poverty.
